A quarter and a half million people in the US state of Illinois will receive a payment from Facebook of just over $ 300 in compensation for the breach of their privacy.
A portion of these millions will be used to cover administrative and legal costs, while the rest will be used to compensate the 1.57 million social network users affected by this situation.
Users had to proactively request that compensation be collected. Claimants must have resided in the US state of Illinois for at least six months to be eligible, local media outlets show .
As Bloomberg explained, the judge in charge of the case was initially skeptical about whether the less than $ 1 billion settlement was fair. The reason is that violating this state's vital information privacy law could prompt users to request up to $ 5,000 per individual case.
Finally, the company and its consumer attorneys convinced Judge James Donato with an additional promise to publicize the class-action lawsuit widely and thus be able to reach a large number of those affected.
According to the published data, the case ended with a consumer participation rate of 25%, when less than 10% of eligible persons file claims in this type of case.
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